Our first site today is a must see for anyone who is a fan of the movies. The Internet Movie Database, or IMDb to its friends, is a classic website that has settled many an argument in my house.

This website bills itself as Earth's biggest movie database, and
while I don't know what they base that statement on, if it's not
accurate, it certainly can't be far off. Use the search tool on the
left to hunt down a particular title, director or actor using a
standard keyword search, or use their categories and listings to browse
through the content at random.

Each tab across the top takes you to a section with featured
articles linked in the centre, and if you click the smaller links just
below the tabs you can access areas like their top box office hits
lists for various regions of the world, and a great section which
highlights the current news in the world of independent film.

Easy to access, fast to load, and packed with amazing facts and information. What more could you ask of a reference website?

American Rhetoric
is a website that I found fascinating because it helps you to
understand the way the American culture has evolved and developed, and
the issues that have been important in the past.

You'll need sound enabled to get the most out of this website since,
as one would expect from a website all about speeches, there are a lot
of audio files for you to listen to. But don't worry if you don't have
any speakers to hand as all the speeches are also transcribed just
below the audio player and introductory image.

The featured sections are panelled in the main page, or you can use
the links on the left. There are sections covering all sorts of things,
so I suggest you just wade in and have a browse. There is even a
section with some classic movie speeches inside it. My advice is to
listen to the links for the most requested audio files - which contain
things like Martin Luther King's "I have a Dream" speech, and other
classic moments in history.

If you are a little more adventurous you can listen to famous movie
speeches - there are some terrific movie moments here from the Saint
Crispin day's Address from Shakespeare's 'Henry the Fifth', to the slightly less historic president's speech from the film 'Independence Day'.

Talk Graphics
is another one of those excellent forums where literally hundreds,
possibly even thousands of people hang out every day, talking about the
things that they love to do. Lots and lots of people enjoy creating
graphics on their computers, for fun as well as work - I should know,
I'm one of them - and I should think a fair few of those people hang
out in this crisp and friendly forum.

As with all forums you need to register to make a post, but you
don't need to register to read the posts that are being made and you
may well find your question has been asked by someone else in the past
anyway, so it's always worth taking a look before you ask. As with any
public access website like this the usual caveats about content apply,
though being a moderated forum you are unlikely to come across anything
too unsuitable.